Author: Jason Norman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476684863 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Throughout the new millennium, the number of women interested in amateur wrestling has skyrocketed. From grade school to college, girls and women have been strapping on their head guards and singlets to grapple with their dreams of success on the mat. However, the sport and its participants have not always had an easy time. This book documents the growth of female amateur wrestling in America, and the difficulties and victories it has faced, from removal from the 2013 Olympic Games, to missing the 2020 Games altogether due to Covid-19. The work chronicles the bravery of the women who have led the sport and sets out their performances in the 2021 Olympic Games. With 50 photographs, it also features interviews with the female wrestlers who continue to challenge an often-suppressed field, hoping eventually to leave their mark on the American sports world.
Author: Pat Laprade Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1773050141 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 629
Book Description
Documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women’s wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s hugely popular matches. With more than 100 wrestler profiles, find out how backstage politics, real-life grudges, and incredible personalities shaped the business. The careers of many well-known trailblazers, including Mildred Burke, the Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Penny Banner, Wendi Richter, Trish Stratus, Chyna, and Lita, are celebrated alongside today’s stars, like Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Bayley. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} With rare photographs and an exploration of women’s wrestling worldwide — including chapters on Japan, Mexico, England, and Australia — Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is a priceless contribution to the history of professional wrestling. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}
Author: Mike Chapman Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers ISBN: Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
For the first time wrestling coaches, wrestlers, and fans have access to the annals of American amateur wrestling. This is the most detailed chronicle ever written on the people and places that have made wrestling, history.
Author: Theresa Walton Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ISBN: 9783838310923 Category : Women in mass media Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
With the passage of Title IX in 1972 in the United States, women's athletic participation grew exponentially at the high school and collegiate levels. During the same time period, however, many collegiate male wrestling programs were eliminated. Despite the huge increases in men's athletics budgets, and athletic director's decisions to spend money in places other than wrestling, Title IX has become the scapegoat for those cuts. In the context of these issues, female participation in wrestling blends and problematizes the separation of these two sides. With the general lack of media attention paid to the sport of wrestling, it is not surprising that girls' and women's wrestling receives little media attention. Yet the growing number of participants at the high school level - and more importantly their success there, against boys - attracted a small flurry of media coverage. Moreover, wrestling periodicals also provide limited coverage of elite women wrestlers. In this paper, I analyze media representations of female amateur wrestling and issues of Title IX in mainstream media sources, wrestling periodicals and scholarly periodicals.
Author: Steven Verrier Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476645639 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
George Gordienko (1928-2002) may be the greatest wrestler you've never heard of. From humble, Ukrainian/Cossack immigrant roots in the Canadian Prairies, he endured a tough childhood during the Great Depression to emerge as a leading "shooter" and one-of-a-kind artist on the mat. Excluded from wrestling in the United States during the McCarthy era because of his association with the Communist Party as a young man, he was deprived of a run with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, for which he was hand-picked by the great Lou Thesz. After retirement, Gordienko transitioned to a different sort of canvas and became a successful painter. This first full-length biography traces his remarkable career.
Author: Russ Hellickson Publisher: Perigee ISBN: 9780399512698 Category : Wrestling. Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Discusses basic body positions, setups for takedowns, ways to counter a takedown, and how to effect escapes, reversals, and pinning combinations.
Author: Brian R. Solomon Publisher: ISBN: 9781770415805 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
For a half-century, the Sheik terrorized fans and foes, becoming wrestling's most feared villain. Yet away from the ring, Ed Farhat was a veteran, family-man and businessman whose real life was shrouded in mystery. For the first time, Blood and Fire tells the whole story.
Author: Ken Dunlop Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group ISBN: 9781922444813 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE OPENLY GAY IN THE HYPER-MACHO WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING? Just ask Ken "Dazzler" Dunlop, whose Australian professional wrestling career coincided with the AIDS crisis and when homosexuality was not only still taboo but also a criminal act. In the first ever autobiography by an Australian professional wrestler, the life and times of an out-and-proud wrestling legend and a member of the Australian professional Wrestling Hall of Fame are candidly laid out in this wonderful new memoir. Ken "Dazzler" Dunlop is a man who dedicated 24 years to the sport of professional wrestling. Despite his small stature, Ken proved his toughness and resilience by bodyslamming and clotheslining his way to a memorable 24-year Hall of Fame career in Australia and abroad with superstars the likes of Andre the Giant and Mario Milano. Always striving to be the best that he could be, no matter what...Every decision centred around his wrestling career and those who supported him...During his career he also taught many young men to wrestle and became a mentor in their lives as they excelled beyond even their own expectations. From his humble beginnings as a mummy's boy in rural Victoria to his crazy life as an out-and-proud gay man in Australia's Sin City, there were moments of triumph, laughter, mayhem, and plenty of tears. These are the no-holds-barred stories of a bona fide wrestling pioneer who did it all with passion, loyalty, and a no-nonsense honesty. This is the autobiography of Australian Wrestling Legend and Hall of Fame Inductee, Ken "Dazzler" Dunlop. "A true character and legend of the most entertaining and demanding sport in the world...Ken has dreamed it, lived and loved it with everything he is as a champion and as a person...this is a wonderfully honest and humbled sharing of his own story...Marvellous and inspiring..." Brian, Indiebook reviewer
Author: Jason Norman
Author: Pat Laprade
Author: Mike Chapman
Author: Edward Clark Gallagher
Author: Theresa Walton
Author: Steven Verrier
Author: Russ Hellickson
Author: Warren J. Boring
Author: Brian R. Solomon
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